Now your Sims can rediscover the joys of leisure time! Awaken your Sims’ true passions in life as they discover and excel at all-new activities. Whether they’re tossing a football with the family, practicing ballet, restoring cars with friends, or building train sets, your Sims now have more ways to build skills, enhance friendships, and make their lives more successful.  The Official Game Guide covers: • Five all-new careers exposed, including cool career objects! • Immerse your Sims in ten engrossing hobbies. • All new Talent Badges revealed! • Dream big. Earn rewards. Learn how inside! Click here for Guide Preview Buy Book  |  Buy Download

The Sims™ 2 FreeTime Soundtrack: Featuring Natasha Bedingfield. You can always find the hottest, up-and-coming artists on your Sims’ radio,but check out The Sims™ 2 FreeTime for our biggest star yet!  International pop artist Natasha Bedingfield has joined forces with The Sims™ 2 to record her hit single “Pocket Full of Sunshine” in Simlish. Check out The Sims™ 2 FreeTime Official Music Video and an exclusive look behind-the-scenes of the recording!

February is a month of holidays and happenings; the better to keep us distracted through the final frigid flailing of winter. I, however, look forward to it for what February means to me: Sims 2 expansion pack time. Sure, September means that too, but I can (usually) tell the difference. Where was I? Oh yes, like the passing of the seasons, so too is the calendar marked by the next evolutionary expansion of the wildly successful and enduring Sims 2 franchise. This time around, our little virtual creations get something they've always desired: more to do with their off hours. Read more...